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Quotes by Johann Oscar Wilde 401-440
401 If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they’ll kill you.
402 The intellect is not a serious thing, and never has been. It is an instrument on which one plays, that is all.
403 Every man of ambition has to fight his century with its own weapons. What this century worship is wealth. The God of this century is wealth. To succeed one must have wealth. Al all cost one must have wealth.
404 To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
405 A thing is not necessary true because a man dies for it.
406 Lean on principles, one day they’ll end up giving way.
407 I don’t say we all ought to misbehave. But we ought to look as if we could.
408 There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating – people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.
409 I never put off till tomorrow what I can possibly do – the day after.
410 High hopes were once formed of democracy; but democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
411 When we are happy we are always good but when we are good we are not always happy.
412 To be good, according to the vulgar standard of goodness, is obviously quite easy. It merely requires a certain amount for sordid terror, a certain lack of imaginative thought, and a certain low passion for middle-class respectability.
413 Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are.
414 But what is the difference between literature and journalism? Journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. That is all.
415 Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.
416 The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.
417 You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know.
418 It is awfully hard work doing nothing. However, I don’t mind hard work where there is no define object of any kind.
419 An inordinate passion for pleasure is the secret of remaining young.
420 Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
421 To regret one’s own experiences is to arrest one’s own development. To deny one’s own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one’s own life. It is no less than a denial of the soul.
422 To be natural is such a very difficult pose to keep up.
423 How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.
424 You like every one; that is to say, you are indifferent to every one.
425 I don’t want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.
426 The man who can dominate a London dinner-table can dominate the world.
427 Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.
428 I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.
429 Life imitates art far more than art imitates life.
430 There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
431 By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
432 Illusion is the first of all pleasures.
433 A true friend stabs you in the front.
434 One can always be kind to people about whom one cares nothing.
435 The real tragedies of life occur in such an inartistic manner that they hurt us by their crude violence, their absolute incoherence, their absurd want of meaning, their entire lack of style.
436 Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.
437 And the mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death.
438 When you really want love you will find it waiting for you.
439 It is because humanity has never known where it was going that it has been able to find its way.
440 Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.
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